Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWatch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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One hand washes the other.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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